Guest Column: Louisiana becoming a job-creation powerhouse of the South

10:45 PM,
Jul. 26, 2013

Written by

Stephen Moret
Guest Columnist

The last few years have represented some of the most economically challenging times our country has faced in decades. Fortunately, Louisiana's economy has performed relatively well even as other states have foundered.

Louisiana is one of only 14 states in the U.S. that have more jobs today than in January 2008. Louisiana's job performance ranks seventh best in the U.S. and second best in the South in that time period.

For decades, Louisiana experienced net population out-migration every single year, but the U.S. Census recently reported that our state experienced five years in a row of net ...